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Welcome to 2024. This year's first monthly Chess.com update focuses on handy new features, catches you up on the latest news, and previews some exciting events ahead.

Here's what this update covers:

Product & Engineering

There are two great new features to help you learn from all of your brilliant (and less-than-brilliant) moves in 2023, as well as challenging bots and thousands of additional puzzles.

If you are in tech and would like to join our team, we're hiring!

2023 concluded with fireworks in the Champions Chess Tour Finals, as well as dominant displays in the FIDE World Rapid and FIDE World Blitz tournaments. Stay tuned for major events in 2024.

This month's community-based highlights include democracy in action, exciting contests coming up soon, and a fabulous fundraising effort.

What do chess and international football have in common, how important are instincts in becoming a champion, and does Magnus know Hikaru's birthday? Find out below.

December saw several major new courses released on Chessable, including a reinterpretation of one of the all-time greats. All of the courses linked below have free previews full of chess wisdom.

ChessKids just keeps getting better and better. The future stars of chess are shining brightly already! Get to know these names because you'll be seeing a lot more of them over the coming years.

New year, new stats. Going forward, we're including the number of rating points refunded to users who lost games to opponents who violated our Fair Play rules.

Fair Play stats for December:

It may have been the holiday season, but Chess.com support never sleeps. (Okay, they do, that's a basic biological need, but they're still very diligent.)

Fun fact: the team fielded approximately 1.2 million replies in 2023; that's twice as much as in 2022!

Thank you for being part of our amazing community, and we hope that this year brings you plenty of chess success. Let us know your thoughts and ideas in the comments below.

Missed an update? You'll find last month's edition here.

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